Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-01
THE SOUTH AND IT'S INTERESTS

Wide attention has naturally been drawn to
the series of articles on the south contributed
to the Press by an observant and intelligent
staff correspondent. They show what the
south IS doing with It's own and northerH CAPT
ia! and energy to develop its great natural re-
/ sources and get those advantages which 1t is
entitled to have from them. There letters
cover many sections and tell the same story of
progress, development and thrift for each. The
influence of awakened activity in one place Is
! felt elsewhere, and while all states have not
! equal resources each state has been moved TO
search out what 1t has and get them employed.
/ This is not new, particularly to-day; It has
been in progress for several years, but the eX
| tent of 1t has been very little understood in
other portions of the country.
1t Is not to the discredit of the south that
much of this has been done and is now being
done with northern capital and enterprise. The
| opportunities offered in the southern states at
the close of the war were apparent, and they
were improved as soon as the rough edge of
prejudice had worn down, and the people of
tn outh began to appreciate the Importance
Of inviting money and men from elsewhere.
The result IS of interest to the whole country.
To enrich the south and make 1t prosperous is
to add 30 much to the common wealth of the
country. The opening of coal Mines the intro
duction of iron manufacture, the erection of
cotton mills need produce no apprehension for
similar Industries IN other sections, nor will
they be likely to do so. The more such enter.
prises are undertaken the more will be the en-
couragement given.
But with all this development and the invest
ment of large capital In manufactures the peo-
pie of the south will need to learn one thing.
They can not much longer afford to be misrep-
resented in Congress by free trade theorists.
The whole substantial business causes of the
south Is being more or less injured by free
trade Congressman from that section. They
are living on the traditions of the Calhoun days
when there was nothing In the south to pro.
tect, and they have not generally kept up, as
the people themselves have. with the purposes
and demands of the present time. The south
has grown in these latter years in epite of them
and their wrong Ideas; 1t has progressed ana
prospe' ed under existing Republican tariff
laws, and II can doubtless continue to do
The people owe 1t 10 themselves. however, to
encourage their own prosperity by removing as
much as possible the constant menace of the
practically sold free trade delegations from
the southern states
AS liberal as the north mas been with Its capt
tai in the south, who can say how much more
liberal itwould have been had the attitude of
Southern Congressman been different? Assur-
anCe of protection for investments is undeni
ably necessary, but there would be no such
assurance If the methods of Carlisle and the
southern statesmen who act with him should
prevail To the people of the south, who are
just fairly awakening to their own opportuni-
ties, this is not alone question of inviting and
protecting investment from abroad; IL i5 to
them a question OF their own protection and
the encouragement of their own prosperity.
They cannot always safely make the mistake
they are now repeating every time they elect
representatives In Congress or vote for Presi
dent Of the United States. 1t is and must be to
them matter of business to which their eyes
will sooner or later be opened Philadelphia
Press
The Press is not of those who may be
expected to opens its eyes to the under
lying cause of the southern boom.
There was no "boom'' in the south so
long as radicalism ruled the land and gave
official sanction to cruel ISLANDERS of
southern people and southern society.
For quarter of century the men of the
Old South labored. on to upbuild what had
been torn down in the face of every OBJ
stacle that radica! legislation and radical
hate could Interpose. Despite all, the
Inauguration of Democratic rule found
the south ripe for g boom, and when it
was found that Cleveland, with his
Southern Brigadier" party, and Bsyard,
Lamar and Garland did not do those
things which radicalism had predicted rs
consequence of Democratic sscendarcy,
northern capital sought the profit to be
found in southern investments.
The iron and the coal and the rich
lands of the south were known of men
long years ago, but a radical press
preached SANDER and capital feared the
south; Clevelands election and admins
tration effectually disproved al that had